Four Bushnell City Hall employees, including an assistant city clerk, represented by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 51, have reached a contractual agreement with the city.

City Attorney Liz Duvall reported during a council meeting Monday that a two-year contract has been finalized after an arbitrator released a settlement on June 3.

Under the contract, the four employees will receive a 50-cent, or 3.71 percent on the average hourly rate, per hour raise added to base pay in the first year of the agreement and a 50-cent, or 3.58 percent, raise in year two. Starting hourly pay for new employees will be $9.50 per hour.

Also under the contract, any subcontract work must the work must first be offered to bargaining unit members.

The pay increases under the contract are retroactive to May 1, 2013, and the contract expires on April 30, 2015.

In other business Monday, the council approved to an $10,605.09 invoice from McClure Engineering and one for $93,035.77 from Laverdiere Construction for work related to a sanitary sewer project on Wells/Hail St.

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